ALARM DEFINING DEVICE AND ALARM DEFINING METHOD

• US 20100211538A1
• Filed: 02/18/2010
• Published: 08/19/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 02/18/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Yokogawa Electric Corporation
• Original Assignee: Yokogawa Electric Corporation
• Inventors: Okada, Satoshi
• Application Number:
  US12/708,081
• Publication Number:
  US 20100211538A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 706/47
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 23/0272 Presentation of monitored results, e.g. selection of status reports to be displayed; Filtering information to the user

Abstract

An alarm defining device includes a rule input accepting section which accepts an input of an attribute rule, and an attribute defining section which defines an attribute for each alarm status in a plant according to the rule accepted by the rule input accepting section.

Claims

1. An alarm defining device comprising:

a rule input accepting section which accepts an input of an attribute rule; and

an attribute defining section which defines an attribute for each alarm status in a plant according to the rule accepted by the rule input accepting section.

2. The alarm defining device according to claim 1, comprising:

a correction input accepting section which accepts a selection of a specific alarm status from among the alarm statuses whose attributes are defined by the attribute defining section and accepts an input for individually correcting the attribute of the selected specific alarm status.

3. The alarm defining device according to claim 1, wherein the attribute includes an attribute related to:

significance of an alarm;

an alarm indication condition;

the presence or absence of alarm detection;

or the presence or absence of automatic deletion of alarm condition at the time of restoration.

4. The alarm defining device according to claim 2, wherein the attribute includes an attribute related to:

significance of an alarm;

an alarm indication condition;

the presence or absence of alarm detection;

or the presence or absence of automatic deletion of alarm condition at the time of restoration.

5. An alarm defining method comprising:

a step of accepting an input of an attribute rule; and

a step of defining an attribute for each alarm status in a plant according to the rule accepted at the step of accepting the input of the rule.

6. The alarm defining method according to claim 5, comprising:

a step of accepting a selection of a specific alarm status from among the alarm statuses whose attributes are defined at the step of defining the attribute and accepting an input for individually correcting the attribute of the selected specific alarm status.